Tracking mosquitoes with your cellphone

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The Prakash Lab at Stanford, led by Manu Prakash, assistant professor of bioengineering,
is looking for citizen scientists to contribute to Abuzz, a mosquito monitoring platform
the lab developed to produce the most detailed global map of mosquito distribution.
All that's required to participate is a cellphone to record and submit the buzz of
a mosquito, which means almost anyone from around the world can take part in this
work.

More than mere pests, mosquitoes can carry deadly diseases, including malaria, yellow
fever, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya and Zika. Diseases spread by mosquitoes
result in millions of deaths each year and the burden of their effects is carried
most strongly by places with the fewest resources.

This app could enable the world's largest network of mosquito surveillance by using
the devices that almost everyone around the world now is carrying in their pocket. When you join the platform, you can record the mosquitoes sounds, learn about their
biology. And in that process, you will be supporting the kind of research and scientific
data that we and medical entomologists around the world so desperately need and, at
the same time, you will be making your own community safer. Read more about how this
app will work at sciencedaily.com.

Published on: Oct 31, 2017

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